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German troops on horseback cross a bridge during the Poland campaign

The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland.

Why do things change?.

History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb.

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated.

Moves still from Rob Roy

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland.

Statue of Ibn Battuta at the Islamic culture center, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Ibn Battuta: the most famous traveller of the medieval Arab world.

Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsPlot twists.

Food on a platter

Food history: everything you wanted to know.

The rise of the Paralympics.

Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”.

Michael Wood on history festivals“The communal retelling of history is magical. Just ask the kids!”.

Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

How has migration changed the world?.

Behind the scenes of The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family.

A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game.

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo the MagnificentThe astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Renaissance Florence

Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

The complex history of concentration camps.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

QuizCan you spot the real historical remedies?.

What’s next for period drama?.

Theodore Roosevelt visiting a US army camp, c1918. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The great American U-turn: from isolationism to WW1 combatants.

Vikings and Franks.

Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life.

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses.

William Wallace on trial in 1305

William Wallace: who was the Scottish rebel who defied Edward I?

Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster.

British police history: everything you wanted to know.

The Windsors in exile.

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton.